{"id":40301,"date":"2025-10-19T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40301"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:31:33","slug":"the-inspector-general-1949-starring-danny-kaye-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40301","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Inspector General&#8221; (1949) starring Danny Kaye \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z101925zview_inspectorgeneral.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Inspector General <\/strong><\/em>(1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Henry Koster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Philip Rapp, Harry Kurnitz; <\/strong>Suggested by the play by <strong>Nikolai Gogol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart, Walter Catlett, Rhys Williams<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong>Leonard Bremen, Albert Cavens <\/strong>and <strong>Alan Hale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>We Won&#8217;t Tell, Danny!!! But wait till that luscious little lovely finds out you&#8217;re not the Inspector General!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Georgi, an uneducated but kind-hearted fool, is kicked out of a band of gypsies for revealing that a miracle potion being sold is anything but.\u00a0 Georgi wanders into the small town of Brodny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brodny is governed by a corrupt Mayor who along with his council are making themselves rich at the expense of the town&#8217;s citizens.\u00a0 The Mayor has learned that an Inspector General has secretly been sent to each city by the King.\u00a0 The Inspector General&#8217;s job is to find corruption and make the guilty pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mayor believes that Georgi is the Inspector General.\u00a0 Which is all well and good until the REAL Inspector General arrives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Inspector General<\/em> is a fun movie.\u00a0 Be aware that the film is in the public domain so there are several versions available, some with cut scenes or songs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Inspector General <\/strong><\/em>(1949) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z101925zview_inspectorgeneral2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector General (1949) Director:\u00a0 Henry Koster Screenplay: Philip Rapp, Harry Kurnitz; Suggested by the play by Nikolai Gogol Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40302,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301\/revisions\/40302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}